This is especially true in New York and London, where observers are straining to find sufficient prefixes (mega, hyper and super have all been aptly applied) to describe the pace at which gentrification is changing the city.
The designation European Capital of Culture is aptly applied this year to Bruges (or Brugge, to use the Belgian city's Flemish name): during the 14th and 15th centuries it was a cultural bridge between northern and southern Europe.
Arthur C. Clarke's oft-quoted law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," is aptly applied to Rosenkrantz's Kinematic Petals Dress.
The expression "different strokes for different folks" could be aptly applied to the case of a Brazilian man who was reportedly caught on camera having sex with a mannequin during an alleged burglary.
We conclude that the popular guilt by association principle can be aptly applied to the brain atlas database, transforming it into a rich source for functional genomic studies in neuroscience, in addition to a reference data repository.
And if the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others.
"And if the word 'cowardly' is to be used," she continued, "it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others.
The "half elevator, half train" analogy is most aptly applied to the Otis Elevating Railway that connected the Catskill Mountain Railway and the Catskill & Tannersville Railway, near Catskill, N.Y.
Rarely has the phrase "man of the world" been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the subject of a handsome and large though surely not anywhere near large enough retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday.
Rarely has the phrase "man of the world" been more aptly applied than to the protean photographer Henri Carther-Bresubjecthe subject of a handsome and large — though surely not anywhere near large enough — retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday.
Xinhua's assessment, it so happens, might be even more aptly applied to China.
